Carpool systems
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Modern technology has enabled substantial improvements in carpool management and coordination. For example, there are now many websites where one can match and arrange carpools online.
Planning and then operating a carpool system (as opposed to a single carpool) is a challenge of considerable technical and management complexity, and in the past the degree of these challenges has often been considerably underestimated.
It is sometimes claimed that well designed public transport systems have proven a faster and cheaper alternative to carpooling in big cities. This is not necessarily true (complex criteria for comparison), since the main reason that carpools have failed in the past is simply that they have been inadequately designed and managed.
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